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07-21-2003, 11:50 AM
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge dismissed the NAACP's case against handgun makers Monday, ruling that the group showed gun retailers were careless but failed to prove that its members were uniquely harmed.
The NAACP proved its members "did suffer relatively more harm from the nuisance created by the defendants through illegal availability of guns in New York," U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote in a 175-page decision.
"It failed, however, to show that its harm was different in kind from that suffered by other persons in New York," Weinstein added.
Despite ruling against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the judge found that its lawyers had established "clear and convincing evidence" that gun retailers are guilty of "careless practices."
Manufacturers take too few measures, he wrote, "to eliminate or even appreciably reduce the public nuisance they individually and collectively have created." Among the "obvious steps," he said, would be requiring retailers to ban multiple sales to the same customers.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge dismissed the NAACP's case against handgun makers Monday, ruling that the group showed gun retailers were careless but failed to prove that its members were uniquely harmed.
The NAACP proved its members "did suffer relatively more harm from the nuisance created by the defendants through illegal availability of guns in New York," U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote in a 175-page decision.
"It failed, however, to show that its harm was different in kind from that suffered by other persons in New York," Weinstein added.
Despite ruling against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the judge found that its lawyers had established "clear and convincing evidence" that gun retailers are guilty of "careless practices."
Manufacturers take too few measures, he wrote, "to eliminate or even appreciably reduce the public nuisance they individually and collectively have created." Among the "obvious steps," he said, would be requiring retailers to ban multiple sales to the same customers.
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Click here to read more (http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NAACP_GUN_LAWSUIT?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE =DEFAULT)